Behav. Brain. Sci.

Just out! 👇 Check my commentary to Robin Dunbar's great target paper in BBS ✅ Dunbar's paper 👉 cambridge.org/core/journals/… ✅My commentary 👉 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

📣The call for commentaries is now open for our BBS paper 'Core Perception' (until Dec. 29)! For details, visit: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

📣New BBS Article!📣 "Models casting egalitarian societies as crucibles of equality perpetuate the uninformed notion that foragers are somehow more noble. Critiques portray egalitarianism as romantic fantasy. Neither characterization is wholly justified" doi.org/10.1017/S01405…

Call for commentary proposals on “Social Tinkering: The Social Foundations of Cultural Complexity” by @NickJChater & @MH_Christiansen! How do local tweaks to social rules scale? Propose your comment here: cambridge.org/core/journals/… Preprint: cambridge.org/core/services/…

"The human brain makes up just 2% of body mass but consumes closer to 20% of the body’s energy." Press release about this new target article by Philipp Haueis and David J. Colaço: aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2025/11/24/thi… And submit your proposal to comment here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Our @BBSJournal target article has been accepted: "Core Perception": Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving With @AlonHafri , Véronique Izard, @chazfirestone & @stricklandbrent Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S01405… A short thread [1/5]👇

⁦@mnvrsngh⁩ on “Subjective selection, super-attractors, and the origins of the cultural manifold” in ⁦BBS cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The call for commentaries on our BBS paper is out now (deadline Oct 15): shorturl.at/Hu3Yu. In the paper (shorturl.at/4Rbk6), we provide recommendations and outstanding issues for studies on unconscious processing

I've called this process "subjective selection" and argue that it underlies much of cultural evolution, including the predictable development of these complex near-universals. Download: cambridge.org/core/journals/… Call for commentaries: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Why do societies reliably develop strikingly similar traditions like dance songs, hero stories, shamanism & justice institutions? In a @BBSJournal target article, I propose a theory for such "super-attractors" + the evolution of culture more broadly. Online & open for commentary

Propose your commentary by Aug 15! Learn more: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

"we present scientific arguments, w/ evidence, that developmental psych theories, & in consequence developmental research, need to be updated, considering the diversity that exists in the human species but is ignored w/in current theories of human nature" cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🚨New in @BBSJournal: "Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework" is out as a target article & now open for commentary proposals! Ever wonder why an environment once full of promise 🥰 can later feel constraining 😮‍💨? doi.org/10.1017/S01405… 🧵

Here's our BBS open peer commentary on "Reconsidering the link between past material culture and cognition in light of contemporary hunter–gatherer material use" 🪓🪚🪛doi.org/10.1017/S01405…; you can read it here: cambridge.org/core/journals/… 🤓 @CenterImsert @UMK_Torun

Here is a preliminary outcome of project TIPPS in a form of a BBS commentary: Higher-order motivational constructs as personal-level fictions: A solution in search of a problem doi.org/10.1017/S01405…

Sports, team games, and physical skill competitions appear to be a human universal and may have been prevalent throughout the hominin lineage. New @BBS commentary with @oteldakar on an excellent target article by @DStibbardHawkes bit.ly/3EtRKp6

@ed_hagen @HSB_Lab @JoHenrich @mnvrsngh There's also a forthcoming bbs congruent with Paris School contractualist approach: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

"Do humans calibrate the onset, termination, and/or lengths of life stages at biological, psychological, behavioral, and societal levels in response to ecological affordances?" cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Submit by the deadline for commentary proposals on July 15! Read the full paper here: cambridge.org/core/services/… And follow the instructions to submit here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Submit your proposal to comment by EOD tomorrow: cambridge.org/core/journals/… Read the full paper: cambridge.org/core/services/…